Sabine Höhler: Anthropocene History at Copenhagen Center for Applied Ecological Thinking
"With a perspective of history as an essentially meaning-making and navigational tool for understanding our contemporary world, this lecture presents a novel, integrated approach to past, present, and future history."
Sabine Höhler , Co-lead of the Centre for Anthropocene History and Professor at the Division of History of Science Technology and Environment at KTH, will give a keynote on Anthropocene History at Copenhagen Center for Applied Ecological Thinking on 22 January.
In the Anthropocene, human history and Earth history become entangled. This situation is a challenge to all historians, but particularly those who study the history of science, technology and environment, fields that are concerned with the means and processes that have changed the trajectory of the Earth system and will continue to influence its future.
With a perspective of history as an essentially meaning-making and navigational tool for understanding our contemporary world, this lecture presents a novel, integrated approach to past, present, and future history.
Building on the work of the recently founded Center for Anthropocene History at KTH in Stockholm, I will sketch a research program for Anthropocene History as an object and a mode of writing history that aims to mend the longstanding separation between human and Earth history that the recognition of the Anthropocene revokes. I explore how environmental historians may approach the vast and ruptured temporal and spatial scales of anthropocenic dimension, by studying the irreversible material entanglements between human and non-human natures, from the elemental to the planetary and from deep pasts to distant futures.
Details
Time: 22 Jan. 2026, 15:00-17:00
Place: Læderstræde 20, 1st floor
Organizer: Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) and Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF)